Snubs

from IGN Oscar Snubs 2020: All the Major Nominations Missing From the Academy This Year Knives Out, Hustlers, Rocketman and more big snubs. By Jesse Schedeen The 2020 Oscar Nominations have been revealed. While we’re excited to see terrific films like The...

No More Cowbell – Neil Peart Gone

from The New Yorker THE MISFIT AWESOMENESS OF NEIL PEART AND RUSH By Amanda Petrusich Neil Peart, the lyricist and virtuosic drummer of the Canadian progressive-rock band Rush, died on Tuesday, in Santa Monica, California. He was sixty-seven, and had been fighting...

Buck Henry Gone

from DEADLINE Remembering Buck Henry: Al Franken, Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman, Albert Brooks Join In Praise For Comedy Legend By Bruce Haring UPDATE, with additional reactions Genius, a giant, legendary – those are just some of the words that writers strained to come...

Liz Wurtzel Gone

from CNN Elizabeth Wurtzel, a controversial writer whose work will live on Opinion by Holly Thomas Elizabeth Wurtzel was a pioneer of the confessional memoir. The opposite of controversial is irrelevant. So believed Elizabeth Wurtzel, who was herself controversial and...

Elsie Goes Bankrupt

from Bloomberg via MSN Borden becomes second big US milk producer to file for bankruptcy by Jeremy Hill Borden Dairy Co. filed for bankruptcy, becoming the second major U.S. milk seller to do so in two months as competitive pressures, declining consumption and falling...

Baldessari Gone

from The LA Times John Baldessari, radically influential Conceptual artist, dies at 88 By SUZANNE MUCHNIC, DORANY PINEDA, DEBORAH VANKIN John Baldessari likened his task to that of writers of detective fiction or poetry who build an “architecture of...